The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-09
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two prisoners arrived from Maui by the
Likelike.
Major w. H. CornwelI has reached town
once more.
The Mikahala brought two prisoners
from Kauai.
The band will not play at Emma Square
this evening.
The Zealandia brought fifty boxes of
opium for Chun Lung.
The Y. NJ C. A. bookkeeping class meets
at 7o'clock this evening.
Three passengers returned from the Vol
cano on Sunday by the Kinau.
Mr.. Justice McCuIly leaves by the Aus
tralia for 3 hard-earned vacation.
Mr.. Lishman has recommended work on
the bays of ST. Andrews Cathedral.
The Hon. Robert Stirling leaves on the
Zealandia to-day for visit to England.
Mr.. R. A. Macfie, Jr, came down from
Kauai on the steamer Mikahala yester-
day. @ EEEsEss4
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Halstead, of Waia-
lua, leave by the Australia on pleasu re
trip. 81
Lady Boville, daughter and son, were
through passengers by the steamship zea-
landia.
The thirteenth issue of the Bulletins
summary will be ready at 10 O'Clock this
morning.
Lieutenant the Hon. E. Stanley, of the
Grenadier Guards, was a through passen-
ger by the Zealandia.
The mail by the Australia closes at 1880
o'clock at the Post Office this morning. A
late letter bag until $780, t
The Royal Hawaiian Agricultural So
ciety's annual show will take place next
Saturday atthe Government Nursery.
The Rev. T, J. Curtis, late pastor Of the
Regent-street Presbyterian Church, Red
fern. SydneYswas a through passenger by
the Zealandia.
Mr. G. H. Luce, son of Captain Luce, re-
turned to his island home by the Zealan-
dia He has been in New Zealand the past
three or four years.
The race horses General Hancock and
Colonel Gift, owred by Major Cornweh,
were brought down from Maui yesterday
on the Likelike.
Purser George McLane of the Zealandia
has the thanks of the ADVERTISER for the
prompt delivery of our Sydney and Auck-
land files of papers,
Mrs T. B. Walker, a daughter of the
Hon. John A. Cummins, came up on the
Zealandia from Sydney. Her three chill
dren accompanied her.
The .,Honolulu Almanac and Directory"
for~1887 is now on sale at j. III. Soper's
and A. NJ. Hewett's news depots, and at
this Office. Price, 80 cents.
The late chief officer of the R. NJ. S. Yea
landia, Captain Taylor, has been appointed
pilot for the port of Sydney. He was Sc
Iected out of 81 applicants.
Captain Adjutant c. F. Bartlett, of the
First Regiment of Infantry, Sydney, was
among the Zealandia's passengers. He
goes to England on visit.
Mr. John T. Dare, ex-Attorney General,
will be passenger for San Francisco by
the steamship Australia. His many friends
will look forward to his return at an early
date.
The Rev. H. H. Gowen preached an ex-
celIent sermon at st. Andrews Cathedral
last evening, which had special reference
to gossipers, tittle-tattlers and scandal
mOngers.
The box plan for Miss Amy Sherwn's
concert after the arrival of the Mariposa.
if arrangements can be made, opens at the
office of J. E. Brown & Co., Merchant
street, at o'clock this morning.
A cablegram was sent by the Zealandia
to the builders of the new organ for Kau-
makapih Church, requesting them to ship
the organ the end of this month. The in
strument is about completed.
A London dispatch of April 9Th to the
Sydney Evening News" says: "Mr.
Pearce, of the shipping firm of Elder &
Co., has sailed for Canada. 1t is believed
that the object of his visit is to complete
arrangements for extending the operations
of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s